John (and/or Brad), I've been teetering on getting this working myself. Can you suggest (or document) variances from the UserGuide?
Also, you mentioned the size != 1 error? I've seen that recently, any suggestions on what that is and how to fix it? I've tried to use both a 16MB and 72MB Chip. Thanks, Pat On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, John Mullan wrote: > OK Brad, some fantastic success. I now get the expected fdisk results. > However, previously I also got the expected /proc/mtd results, but now I > get 'permission denied'. > > However I CAN mount /dev/nftla1 without trouble. I copied everything, > redid SYSLINUX and RDEV and I am booting from the DoC with Bering > instead of Dachstien! > > My next question is: what is the problem with /proc/mtd if any? Should > I care because I'm not sure at this point I even know what the purpose > is. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brad Fritz > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:15 PM > To: John Mullan > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Problem: Bering DOC in latest "stable" version > > > > On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 19:20:51 EST John Mullan wrote: > > > Hi Brad. > > > > When I run 'fdisk /dev/nftla' it gives me 'unable to open /dev/nftla' > > The output of 'ls -l /dev/nftla*' should look like this: > > brw-rw---- 1 root root 93, 0 Dec 2 16:51 /dev/nftla > brw-rw---- 1 root root 93, 1 Dec 2 16:51 /dev/nftla1 > brw-rw---- 1 root root 93, 2 Dec 2 16:51 /dev/nftla2 > brw-rw---- 1 root root 93, 3 Dec 2 16:51 /dev/nftla3 > brw-rw---- 1 root root 93, 4 Dec 2 16:51 /dev/nftla4 > > Are your major and minor numbers (93 and 0-4) and permissions > correct? If that checks out, what is the output of lsmod? Do > > nftl > docprobe > doc2000 > docecc > mtdcore > > appear in that order? > > > As far as the existing file system on the DOC, it has always had MSDOS > > on it. The DOC boots fine (at least until I did "syslinux". Now it > > starts booting into Linux but stops because it cannot find the > packages > > and hangs. But then, it still technically has FAT on it. > > Any other hints? > > If the kernel and initrd are loading and then it hangs, that sounds > a lot like a module or device config problem to me. If /proc/mtd is > still: > > > > dev: size erasesize name > > > mtd0: 05000000 00004000 "DiskOnChip 2000" > > the mtdcore.o and doc*.o modules are probably fine. I would double > check that nftl is properly insmoded. > > If you're still having problems after checking all of the above, > feel free to send me the output of dmesg after booting with the > DoC-enabled floppy offline. I'd be happy to compare it to mine > and let you know if anything jumps out at me. > > --Brad > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T > handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET > comprehensive development tool, built to increase your > productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to increase your productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
